Quotes about Wisdom

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Delay is preferable to error.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment

There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.